Editing Manual/Job queue (section)

==== Create script ==== <!--T:133-->
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#!/bin/bash
# <translate nowrap><!--T:103--> Put the MediaWiki installation path on the line below</translate>
MW_INSTALL_PATH="/home/www/www.mywikisite.example/mediawiki"
RUN_JOBS="$MW_INSTALL_PATH/maintenance/runJobs.php --maxtime=3600"
echo <translate nowrap><!--T:104--> Starting job service...</translate>
# <translate nowrap><!--T:105--> Wait a minute after the server starts up to give other processes time to get started</translate>
sleep 60
echo <translate nowrap><!--T:106--> Started.</translate>
while true; do
	# <translate nowrap><!--T:107--> Job types that need to be run ASAP no matter how many of them are in the queue</translate>
	# <translate nowrap><!--T:108--> Those jobs should be very "cheap" to run</translate>
	php $RUN_JOBS --type="enotifNotify"
	# <translate nowrap><!--T:109--> Everything else, limit the number of jobs on each batch</translate>
	# <translate nowrap><!--T:110--> The <tvar name=1>--wait</tvar> parameter will pause the execution here until new jobs are added, to avoid running the loop without anything to do</translate>
	php $RUN_JOBS --wait --maxjobs=20
	# <translate nowrap><!--T:112--> Wait some seconds to let the CPU do other things, like handling web requests, etc</translate>
	echo <translate nowrap><!--T:113--> Waiting for 10 seconds...</translate>
	sleep 10
done
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Depending on how fast the server is and the load it handles, you can adapt the number of jobs to run on each cycle and the number of seconds to wait on each cycle.

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Make the script executable (<tvar name=1><code>chmod 755</code></tvar>).